I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
KARL LAGERFELDBuy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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